{"id":692063,"date":"2021-06-03T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692063"},"modified":"2021-06-03T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:04:00","slug":"galileo-satellites-last-step-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692063","title":{"rendered":"Galileo satellites\u2019 last step before launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Galileo_satellites_card_full.png\" alt=\"Galileo satellites\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s Galileo satellite navigation constellation is set to grow. Later this year the first two out of 12 \u2018Batch 3\u2019 Galileo satellites will be launched by Soyuz from French Guiana. Their last step on the way to launch is situated beside sand dunes on the Dutch coast: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Test_centre\/About_ESTEC_Test_Centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESTEC Test Centre<\/a>, which is Europe\u2019s largest satellite test facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Navigation\/Galileo_satellites_last_step_before_launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Galileo satellites\u2019 last step before launch<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s Galileo satellite navigation constellation is set to grow. Later this year the first two out of 12 \u2018Batch 3\u2019 Galileo satellites will be launched by Soyuz from French Guiana.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692064,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}